Tornadoes in Maury County
This is a list of significant tornadoes that have touched down in Maury County since 1900.
This list does not include F0 events.
| Date | Location | Intensity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 20, 1900 | Columbia | F4 | Tornado touched down between Mt. Pleasant and Columbia and cut an 8 mile path, destroying Neely's Mill and killing 27, mostly in the Macedonia neighborhood of Columbia.[1] |
| April 29, 1909 | Hickman County, Maury County, Williamson County | F3 | Tornado passed through extreme northwestern part of Maury County while cutting a 45-mile path between Centerville and Franklin. Killed 17 and injured 43, but no known injuries/deaths in Maury County.[2] |
| April 15, 1910 | Columbia | F2 | Tornado caused damage to buildings in downtown Columbia and one injury.[3] |
| March 13, 1913 | Giles County, southeastern Maury County | F2 | Tornado caused damage to buildings near Culleoka, 25 injuries and 2 deaths.[4] |
| April 6, 1936 | Northwest Maury County | F3 | The Mule Day Tornado of 1936. Part of the Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak. Killed 5 people and destroyed 30 homes.[5] |
| January 10, 1963 | Spring Hill | F3 | Tornado cut through center of Spring Hill, destroying buildings and causing other damage; several injuries occurred (contemporaneous source says 2 "severe injuries"; Wikipedia says 4 injuries).[6][7] |
| April 3, 1974 | Northeastern Maury County | F1 | Tornado, part of April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak, cut an 8 mile path east of Columbia. No injuries or deaths.[8] |
| April 16, 1998 | Lawrence, Giles, southeastern Maury County | F4 or F5 | Tornado, part of April 16, 1998 outbreak, cut a 19-mile path through northern Lawrence and Giles Counties and southern Maury County, causing damage near Culleoka (including an overturned 18-wheeler and flipped cars) and 9 injuries along its path.[9] This tornado is sometimes referred to as being "The Forgotten F5" although a 2013 reanalysis concluded that it was not the same tornado as the F5 tornado that touched down earlier that evening in Lawrence County (even though the two were both produced by the same supercell thunderstorm).[10] |
| May 25, 2000 | Williamsport, Cross Bridges, Fountain Heights | F1, F1, F2 (three separate tornadoes) | Three small tornadoes caused property damage across the county over a twelve-hour period.[11] |
| December 23, 2015 | Wayne, Lawrence, southwestern Maury County | F3 | Destroyed a barn near Mount Pleasant; injured 7 people along a 50 mile path.[12] |
References
- ↑ National Weather Service. "November 20, 1900 Tornado Outbreak." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "April 29, 1909 Tornado Outbreak." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "Photographs from the Columbia tornado of April 15, 1910." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "March 13, 1913 Tornado Outbreak." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ "200 Tornado Deaths Feared In South As Injuries, Property Damage Mount." The Nashville Banner. 6 April 1936. p. 1. Web (newspapers.com). 11 March 2021.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors. "Tornadoes of 1963." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 29 Jan. 2021. Web. 7 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ "Shrieking Winds Cut Alley of Destruction: Spring Hill Tornado Loss Set at $500,000." The Nashville Tennessean. 12 Jan. 1963. p. 1. Web (newspapers.com). 7 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "April 3, 1974 Super Outbreak." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "April 16, 1998 Tornado Outbreak." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ Gordon, John D. et. al. "The Forgotten F5: The Lawrence County Supercell during the Middle Tennessee Tornado Outbreak of April 16, 1998." National Weather Service. 19 April 2000. Web (weather.gov). 26 March 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "May 24-26, 2000 Tornadoes." Undated. Web. 6 Feb. 2021.
- ↑ National Weather Service. "December 23, 2015 Tornadoes." Undated. Web. 7 Feb. 2021.
External Links
- Rose, Mark. "A Tornado Climatology of Middle Tennessee (1830-2003)." National Weather Service. 2004. Web (weather.gov). 26 March 2021.
- "NWS Nashville Tornado Database." Mississippi State University. Undated. Web (msstate.edu). 26 March 2021.
- "A history of twisters: Tornadoes in Tennessee since 1950." commercialappeal.com. Undated. Web. 26 March 2021.
